High Traffic WP Blogs (5 posts)

We're running a number of high traffic single-user WP blogs under multiple domains on the same server. Most of the WP installs are running WP 2.2 on a DV Extreme server with MT and using WP-Cache. Looking to crank out more speed as we will soon be adding additional blogs to our server and was wondering if anyone has tried using one of the open source PHP accelerator systems like eaccelerator? Our MySQL server (runs on same box) is pretty tuned and so is Apache. I know a few options is to move MySQL to its own server, but I'd like to get things really tuned on the server and was thinking a PHP accelerator/cache system would be the next step.

Any links or if you have any experience (good or bad), I'd like to hear them.

By the way, our server has 1GB of Ram and we currently push about 2.5 million page views a month.

I find that eaccelerator works well and shaves some seconds off of page generation. At one time I was running my WP installation on a PII running at 450 Mhz and 256 MB of RAM. The eaccelerator was a real shot in the arm :).

With Super Cache activated, the initial creation of the static page is same as always speed wise. But once that page is created, using a simple benchmarking tool such as ab2 (comes with Apache 2.x) shows how much time is saved by not engaging PHP and loading the static HTML page out of the cache.